Pd-list November 2008

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[PD-announce] Computer Admin Job at UCSD
by Tom Erbe 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

We have an opening for a computer administrator in the UCSD music department. Our new music building is opening this spring, so there is a lot of interesting work to do, setting up the computer music studios, concert halls (one with Meyer virtual acoustics) and other facilities. The deadline is December 5th - please forward this to any likely candidates: Job announcement: http://tinyurl.com/62sn4s Music building: http://music.ucsd.edu/building/building.php Thanks, Tom /> tom erbe | soundhack | 608 carla way la jolla, ca 92037 /> tomerbe - at - san.rr.com | http://www.soundhack.com /> http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre | http://www.myspace.com/tomerbe _______________________________________________ Pd-announce mailing list Pd-announce(a)iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce

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"argument out of range" when using $1/$2 for send/receive name
by Rich E 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi all, I'm getting the following error in the pd window when I try to use send/receive names like $1/$2: error: #1/$2: argument number out of range error: #1/gui/$2: argument number out of range Yet, they seem to be working... should I just ignore this error message or does anyone know if I will be having bugs in my patches? regards, Rich

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Testing for empty creation args?
by Bill Gribble 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

I am doing something like this: |loadbang| | |symbol $1| | |readfile $1 cr, rewind( | |textfile| There's also an interface to set the filename later. Because of the later message processing, it would be nice not to send the read message if there is no creation arg. Is there a straightforward way to do that? Thanks, Bill Gribble

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[PD-announce] [polygrainsynth] bug
by Phil Stone 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Murphy's Law is upheld once more...I tested both synthesizers fairly carefully for almost a week before releasing them, but within hours of releasing, I've found a fairly major bug in [polygrainsynth]. This bug isn't fatal; you can make sound with the current [polygrainsynth]. The problem: pointer hop control doesn't work properly until after 'n' notes are played, where n equals your number of allocated voices. I know where the problem is, but don't have it fixed and tested yet. Expect an update soon. [polywavesynth] is fine, I think (knock on wood!). Phil Stone _______________________________________________ Pd-announce mailing list Pd-announce(a)iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce

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and it's PR/Marketing, or those
by Adrian 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

I'm sorry for this more like OT, it's just my thought about improving PD and it's externals in another way. I'm struggling ... PD is one of the best tools for making people learn/experiment/perform/interact digital/electronic art at it's best. But where are the people that are PD's target. I'm trying to suggest that PD should try to follow a Popper-alike way of developing. Make it easy accessable for the people and use their input. Except if PD and it's externals are purely egoistic developments, which i don't think is the case ;) The more people you can involve the more feedback/developer/help you get in improving. I'm sorry for saying such things, as it is something that is an actual idea of most of the people here, i'm not trying to sell you for stupid. Maybe i'm just frustrated about my own lack of skill. I was fascinated about projects like pdp, gridflow and especially desiredata. But installing them is a hell for me as a OS X user, and the least i wanna do is search/install for all the necessary things. Now just some suggestions (excuse me for being rude): - Vastly improvement of the webcommunity, very important: Except for a very good maillinglist there is no real source for a community for pd on the net. The forum at hurleur.com is a joke, and that the official site is deadland is just sad. Furthermore the site needs to be ordered and probably hardly overworked, there is nothing wrong in making it accesible to as many people as possible by runnig it in plone, but is it nessecary? The people accesing the site now will probably not need that the site is universible compatible with every last browser on this earth and history, etc. - Improvement in usability of PD & e(xternals): Projects like the installers of iOhannes and desiredata are genial! All externals should follow a path where they can make themself accesible to the public with ease. It must be very frustrating to put lot's of effort and time into something and then nobody wants it. - And last, the documentation: Order, Unifying, Improve Please don't kill me for this mail. Lately i had a message in a Fortune-Cookie saying that "i have a reputation for being very straight forward and honest", i agree and want to follow that path. This mail is not meant to flame or criticize, especially not the developers. I bow down in front of the huge effort all of you put into PD & e. I just think the way of opening and easy accessing the public is the best way in proving that PD is the best and drive it's development. yours, adrian -- another incomplete website: http://conficere.ch/pds

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GEM - nvidia GeForce 6150SE with nvidia proprietary driver and ubuntu 8.10 hangs for number of seconds
by John Harrison 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Running the nvidia proprietary driver, ubuntu 8.10 64 bit (Kernel 2.6.27-8) an open and rending Gem window will hang the machine for random periods of up to 30 seconds. Problem can be triggered by clicking and dragging the GEM window with the mouse and trying to move the window. CPU appears to be maxed out during that time. I tried NVIDIA graphics driver version 96 and 177 and the results were the same. If I switch to the open source nividia driver the problem disappears --- and I enjoy 75% CPU usage showing only a live feed to a Gem window on a 4G AMD 64bit dual core. ;-) lspci describes my graphics card as an nVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (rev a2) Besides using the open source driver, anybody know of a solution? -- John Harrison http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison

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how to send named commands/arguments to an abstraction?
by Rua Haszard Morris 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

I am having fun making an abstraction. I want it to be able to respond to "messages"/commands in a similar way to externals. For example, imagine an abstraction that has 1 inlet, and if it gets (from the parent patch) "file filename.mid" then it reads that file, or if it gets "bpm 120" it sets the bpm to 120, or if it gets "loop 0" it turns off looping, or if it gets "bang" or "play" it starts playing. What object(s) do I use to set up something like this? How do I set this up? I've mucked around with pack/unpack but it seems i'm totally barking up the wrong tree. I'm sure if I had a look at a simple example abstraction I'd figure it out but I'm still at the flailing about blindly stage! Note I think I have a good understanding of $1 etc, creation args, and $0, per-instance variable thingy, which are documented well... I don't think they'd do what I'm after. Thanks in advance, Rua HM. -- http://myspace.com/haszari http://haszaristwocents.blogspot.com http://last.fm/music/Haszari Easy recipes for Christmas entertaining on Yahoo!Xtra Lifestyle- http://nz.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-recipes

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[PD-announce] Major updates to [polygrainsynth] and [polywavesynth]
by Phil Stone 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Significant fixes and enhancements have been made to both [polygrainsynth] and [polywavesynth] (free polyphonic synthesizers for Pd). Please try these much-improved new versions. webpage: http://www.pkstonemusic.com/pd_code.html some improvisations made with these instruments: http://www.pkstonemusic.com/pubmusic.htm [polygrainsynth]: 2008-11-22 - v 1.0 * Added "global" toggle, which enables live output of global-capable parameters to all voices. * Added "OSC-UI" toggle, which enables the UI to follow OSC input. * Fixed many small bugs in indeterminacy (rand and drunken walk). * Fixed bug in pointer wrap function for negative pointer hops. * Eliminated "pointer set" slider and variable for anchoring. Anchored notes now start at the subsection beginning (for pointer hops greater than or equal to 0) or the subsection end (for pointer hops less than 0). * Eliminated "rand/drunk" switch to make "rand" and "drunk" controls less cumbersome. Now, a zero value in these parameters is used to switch them off. This has the added benefit of allowing complete independence between hop_size and grain_dur indeterminacy controls. * OSC nodes are all-lowercase now (e.g. /allNotesOff is now /allnotesoff). [polywavesynth]:m 2008-11-22 - v 4.0 * Added "global" toggle, which enables live output of global-capable parameters to all voices. * Added "OSC-UI" toggle, which enables the UI to follow OSC input. * Made 10 of the control parameters "live" i.e., global. * Fixed bug in "noise" wave table (only an eighth of it was initialized before!) * OSC nodes are all-lowercase now (e.g. /allNotesOff is now /allnotesoff). Phil Stone http://www.pkstonemusic.com _______________________________________________ Pd-announce mailing list Pd-announce(a)iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce

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hot and cold inlets don't always make sense
by Lao Yu 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hi, when using an [+] object I find it most of the time counterproductive that the right inlet is considered cold. for example, if I want to use 2 different controls for 'coarse' and 'fine' tuning parameters it is necessary to add them together. however when changing 'fine' value which for instance is connected to the right inlet the new value is only taken into consideration once the 'coarse' value connected to the left inlet is changed as well. the only workaround I found was to [bang] the hot inlet form the cold one as illustrated in the attached patch. but I don't find that elegant. is there a better way to make both inlets hot? Best Jurgen

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problems with Delta 1010LT?
by Jaime Oliver 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hello all, I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT in Fedora 8. I never installed any drivers since it seemed to work right out of the box. I have managed to use the 8 channels OUT, but can't get a signal into pd in any of the 8 channels IN. Has anyone else seen something like this? best, J -- Jaime E Oliver LR joliverl(a)ucsd.edu www.realidadvisual.org/jaimeoliver www-crca.ucsd.edu/ www.realidadvisual.org 858 202 1522 9168 Regents Rd. Apt. G La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

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